Re: Location, Location, Location!


"Space Cadet" <kaw211@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Whenever I've heard talk about O'Neil style space colonies. L5 is
always the suggested
location, but what other orbits/locations would be good? Would there
be a limit to the
number of colonies that we could safely place at L5?
What about the Earth-Sun Lagrange points, like the SE L4 & L5 points?
Are these also referred to as Trojan orbits? What about other
Planet-Sun Trojan/Trojan orbits/points? I know that there are
considerable numbers of asteroids in Jupiter's Trojan orbits that would
make handy
resources for the colonies.


"If we humans want to survive for hundreds of thousands or millions
of years, we must ultimately populate other planets.".......Michael Griffin.

I think orbital colonies make more sense, but what isn't
sensible is the assumption all these discussions make.

That colonies make sense.

As the global warming debate makes clear, our science CANNOT
predict more than a few decades without mass bickering over
the results. If one were to take our state of the art to the limit
then predicting more than a ...couple of days.. is stretching
things.

But hundreds of thousands of years? Come on!

Yet somehow we all seem to accept the conclusion that we
MUST leave Earth to survive as a species. Until that conclusion
is properly justified, or any other reason, any discussion is the
realm of our wild imaginations and dreams. Not the stuff of
serious scientific efforts. Let alone the bulk of our space budget.

Billions of dollars a year, spent to to protect a future
which we know absolutely nothing about. While we
remain in denial over global problems that could arrive
in decades and cause unspeakable suffering.


Main Entry: lu·na·cy

1 a : INSANITY
2 : wild foolishness : extravagant folly


Collective insanity is more than an idea, it's a reality in
the here and now. Why is the near future so controversial
while the distant future seems obvious?

Such a belief system is not science based, but religious.
Fate, destiny and all that hooey.

"The future is what we make of it."

Just because we can't know the distant future, or even
the near, doesn't mean that future is necessarily bleak.
How can we base a national policy and billions of
dollars on ignorance?

But ignoring the simple reality that the near future is
more knowable, and more worthy of our scientific
efforts, will make our future disastrous long before
any colonies could possibly perpetuate the species.




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